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Rasmussen Reports poll finds the population in general is buying into this religion less and less.

The most current Rasmussen Reports poll shows a reduction of the number of peope who believe in the Church of Global Warming.  This has been reported by the American Spectator and News Busters last month, but here is my take on it.

From RasmussenReports.com

The new survey also finds that 39% of voters believe global warming is caused by human activity, up from 34% in April. However, 44% say long-term planetary trends are most to blame for global warming. Last month, 48% cited this reason.

This is most likely where most of the news will stop reading and print it, with flashy headlines saying “More believe, hallayula!”  But like most things, if you keep reading as far as the next paragraph:

Despite the rise in voters who say human activity is to blame, the overall results represent a complete reversal from a year ago, when 47% blamed human activity and only 34% blamed planetary trends.

So, as of a year ago, we’re down to 39% of the voters believing in the Church.

Now, I predict that this number will not get much lower despite the actual cooling of the earth since 1998 and the increase of the truth coming out despite windbags like those at Real Climate or other Church followers.

Simply put: This is not only a religious issue (everyone needs something to believe in), its also a political one.  If you check almost any poll from the United States that asks the population how they identify politically, you will find we are pretty well split democrat/republican with a slice of the pie turning out to be independents.  on the edges you find your Liberal and Conservative.

Now, Global Warming is a big deal for One of these political parties.  (hint: AL GORE).  Though more and more Democrats are defecting on passing Global Warming legislation for fear of being voted off the island, the issue itself of needing a bandwagon of blame to point fingers about how we need to change our ways will always be a core of the protesting hippy “Fight the system” political bull crap.

One of the great church mantras, riding mass transit instead of a car, has been completely refuted thanks to a University of California study.

From Breitbart.com:

Environmental engineers Mikhail Chester and Arpad Horvath at the University of California at Davis say that when these costs are included, a more complex and challenging picture emerges.

In some circumstances, for instance, it could be more eco-friendly to drive into a city — even in an SUV, the bete noire of green groups — rather than take a suburban train. It depends on seat occupancy and the underlying carbon cost of the mode of transport.

Oh my Gore, they did not just say what I thought they said did they?  Wait, where was this study done, some evil right-wing non-progressive red state?

University of California at Davis

Oh, Shit.

“Government policy has historically relied on energy and emission analysis of automobiles, buses, trains and aircraft at their tailpipe, ignoring vehicle production and maintenance, infrastructure provision and fuel production requirements to support these modes,” they say.

So wait, are you trying to tell us, members of the Church, that many factors that go into efficiency of a transit system (whether it be automobiles, trains, or busses) and not just the miles per gallon the vehicle gets!?  What next, you will try to tell us that some other factors may factor into the fluctuations of the Earth’s temperature other then Carbon Dioxide?  Blasphemy!  Next thing you’ll try to spew out of your right-wing xenophobe racist mouths will probably be some nonsense about how the Sun is responsible for the Earth’s temperature, or that Barack Obama isn’t the messiah!

We here at the Church of Global Warming will have nothing to do with this nonsense. 

Either way, by driving an SUV with a couple buddies, not only do you emit less carbon dioxide (unless everyone visited Taco Bell on the way), but other benefits include the following:

1. Retaining that ‘Fresh Out of the Shower’ smell.
2. Being able to leave your destination without needing to look up your train schedule on the interweb.
3. Not having to listen to someone on the train bitch about evil corporate outsourcing, yet brag about their Toyota.
4. The ability to look like you aren’t too poor to drive to work.
5. Being able to stop to pee and not get arrested for it.
6. Reclining leather heated seats.
7. Ample foot room
8. Ample leg room
9. Not needing a billion dollar cho-cho train to do what a $40,000 Hummer can.
10. Ample arm room
11. Being able to drive in more directions then To-and-Fro
12. Two words: Cubic Inches.
13. Getting to keep your Man-Card. 

And the winner is:

So, how to you fix a problem (that doesn’t exist) when people don’t believe in it enough?  You force them… you know, for their own good.

From Guardian.co.uk’s Environmental Activism section:

Protest and direct action could be the only way to tackle soaring carbon emissions, a leading climate scientist has said.

James Hansen, a climate modeller with NASA, told the Guardian today that corporate lobbying has undermined democratic attempts to curb carbon pollution. “The democratic process doesn’t quite seem to be working,” he said.

Speaking on the eve of joining a protest against the headquarters of power firm E.ON in Coventry, Hansen said: “The first action that people should take is to use the democratic process. What is frustrating people, me included, is that democratic action affects elections but what we get then from political leaders is greenwash.

I find it funny how they use “greenwash” to refer to people or companies who say their green by doing something to jump on the Global Warming band wagon, but because it is not “enough” they are called out to be “greenwashing”.  of coarse, Exxon could donate every cent of its profit to Greenpeace, and they would still be blamed for “Greenwashing”.

Personally, I think of Greenwashing as Brainwashing.

“The democratic process is supposed to be one person one vote, but it turns out that money is talking louder than the votes. So, I’m not surprised that people are getting frustrated. I think that peaceful demonstration is not out of order, because we’re running out of time.”

Excuse me?  This NASA scientist shows his true Church of Global Warming approved colors whenever he speaks.  Otherwise, he wouldn’t be blaming this on “the evil money” but instead pointing out how every day less and less people buy into his brand of Kool Aid.

Hansen said he was taking part in the Coventry demonstration tomorrow because he wants a worldwide moratorium on new coal power stations. E.ON wants to build such a station at Kingsnorth in Kent, an application that energy and the climate change minister Ed Miliband recently delayed. “I think that peaceful actions that attempt to draw society’s attention to the issue are not inappropriate,” Hansen said.

So, Hansen, what do you do when peaceful action doesn’t work either?  sooner or later, you are going to have to, at gun point, take people’s money so you can choose how it can help with your delusional disaster.

I can see them yelping about me driving my Tahoe, but soft toilet paper?  I thought paper was a renewable resource!?

From the Guardian’s Environment section:

The tenderness of the delicate American buttock is causing more environmental devastation than the country’s love of gas-guzzling cars, fast food or McMansions, according to green campaigners. At fault, they say, is the US public’s insistence on extra-soft, quilted and multi-ply products when they use the bathroom.

“This is a product that we use for less than three seconds and the ecological consequences of manufacturing it from trees is enormous,” said Allen Hershkowitz, a senior scientist at the Natural Resources Defence Council.

So, you expect me to believe that not only is soft toilet paper causing global warming, but it is indeed worse then all the gas-guzzling cars we drive?  At least they have someone non-biased like a member of the Natural Resource Defence Council to educate us.  I thought paper was renewable… 

“Future generations are going to look at the way we make toilet paper as one of the greatest excesses of our age. Making toilet paper from virgin wood is a lot worse than driving Hummers in terms of global warming pollution.” Making toilet paper has a significant impact because of chemicals used in pulp manufacture and cutting down forests.

Ummm… I am pretty sure Virgin wood is not bad to use, and i’m allsure pretty sure that it does not mean what this guy thinks it means.  Virgin wood is simply wood that has no chemical treatments or finishes applied to it…   You know, untreated Vs. wood that you buy with a weather treatment for example.  Appartently this guy never worked with his hands before.

A campaign by Greenpeace seeks to raise consciousness among Americans about the environmental costs of their toilet habits and counter an aggressive new push by the paper industry giants to market so-called luxury brands.

Fantastic, and with Greenpeace talking to us, I’m sure we will yet again get a non-biased opinion on the issue.  I have a question… Since when was it not okay to use a Renewalbe Resource?  Vergin or not, Wood grows back.  You cut it down, regrow it, cut it down again.  and every good environmentalist knows that a young growing tree takes more C02 out of the air then an old tree does.  But this realy isn’t about the environment, now is it?  its abotu control.

Fearmongering: the use of fear to influence the opinions and actions of others towards some specific end.  Well, we have no shortage of examples here.

Straight from News.google.com when searching for the words “Global Warming” and clicking on the ”all news articles” for the number one story.  Out of 90 articles, only 19 of them are something other then “ITS WORSE THEN WE THOUGHT WE’RE ALL GUNNA DIE”. 

Thats 78% of the articles fearmongering.

The fearmongering here is obvious, but only when you look at multiple articles in a list like this. Note, I did not edit this list at all so some in here do not fear-monger… but the articles that are all “We’re gunna die” are the majority by far.